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2. Shot (pellet) - Wikipedia

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   Lead shot. Shot is a collective term for small spheres or pellets, often made of lead.These have been projected from slings since ancient times and were the original projectiles for shotguns and are still fired primarily from shotguns and grenade launchers, while they are less commonly used in riot guns.

3. Gauge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   Gauge was determined from the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will fit the bore of the firearm and is expressed as the multiplicative inverse of the sphere's weight as a fraction of a pound, e.g., a one-twelfth pound lead ball fits a 12-gauge bore. Therefore with a 12-gauge, it would take 12 balls of lead of the same size as the 12 gauge ...

4. Shotgun cartridge - Wikipedia

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   This measurement comes from the time when early cannons were designated in a similar manner—a "12 pounder" would be a cannon that fired a 12-pound (5.4 kg) cannonball; inversely, an individual "12-gauge" shot would in fact be a 1 ⁄ 12 pounder. Thus, a 10-gauge shotgun has a larger-diameter barrel than a 12-gauge shotgun, which has a larger ...

5. Trap shooting - Wikipedia

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   A 12-gauge shotgun cartridge in a transparent plastic casing, allowing the contents to be seen Trap typically uses lead shot ammunition, with shot sizes (for lead shot) ranging between #7 ½ and #9 (2.0–2.4 mm).

6. Shotgun slug - Wikipedia

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   A 12 gauge Brenneke slug. The Brenneke slug was developed by the German gun and ammunition designer Wilhelm Brenneke (1865–1951) in 1898. The original Brenneke slug is a solid lead slug with ribs cast onto the outside, much like a rifled Foster slug. [11]

7. Shotgun - Wikipedia

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   Home-defense and law enforcement shotguns are usually chambered for 12-gauge shells, providing maximum shot power and the use of a variety of projectiles such as buckshot, rubber, sandbag and slug shells, but 20-gauge (common in bird-hunting shotguns) or .410 (common in youth-size shotguns) are also available in defense-type shotgun models ...

8. List of shotguns - Wikipedia

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   12 gauge United States: 1972 Baikal MP-153: Izhevsk Mechanical Plant: 12 gauge Russia: 2001 Bandayevsky RB-12: Aleksandr Bandayevsky: 12 gauge Russia: 1995 Benelli M1: Benelli Armi: 12 gauge 20 gauge Italy: 1986 Benelli M3: Benelli Armi: 12 gauge 20 gauge Italy: 1989 Benelli M1014: Benelli Armi: 12 gauge Italy: 1999 Benelli Nova: Benelli Armi ...

9. Military 12-gauge cartridges - Wikipedia

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   While shotguns had been used in earlier conflicts, the trench warfare of World War I demonstrated a need for standardized weapons and ammunition. [2] Initial issue with each shotgun was one hundred commercial-production paper-cased shotgun shells containing nine 00 buckshot pellets 0.33 inches (8.4 mm) in diameter.